A crotchety old alien, two teachers at Coal Hill School, one precocious schoolgirl and an alien invasion -- it's like Steven Moffat looked at "An Unearthly Child," "Doctor Who's" very first episode, and decided to put together a tribute band.

The final performance of the legendary comedy group Monty Python proved that moviegoers still wanted to see dead parrots and penguins on top of telly's and wanted to look on the bright side of life one more time as 330,000 Pythonaphiles brought their Spam, egg, Spam and Spam sandwiches to movie thea...

After last week's damp squib of a premiere, Season 8 is in fine form with a good old-fashioned sci-fi romp, complete with running around corridors, getting covered in goo and the perfect Doctor-Companion dynamic.

Peter Capaldi could become one the great Doctors, with a grave sense of wonder that could carry the show pretty deeply "into darkness." It's an open whether the shinier, perkier, re-vamped, demo-baiting current version of the show has room for that kind of greatness.